Fox Pushes For Quick Appeal In Unpaid Interns' Suit

Law360, New York (August 26, 2013, 2:44 PM EDT) -- Fox Entertainment Group Inc. urged a New York federal judge on Friday to give the company permission to appeal his ruling that unpaid interns who worked on the film “Black Swan” were actually employees, saying the Second Circuit has never offered guidance on which standard applies.

Fox Entertainment and its Fox Searchlight Pictures Inc. unit asked U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III in July to certify for immediate appeal his June 11 decision granting a corporate intern's request for class and collective action certification and...